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Yes, Seamless Ligation ("No See'm" technology) has been written about since at least 2006 for its potential to be used in creating biological agents that lack s
by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Yes, Seamless Ligation ("No See'm" technology) has been written about since at least 2006 for its potential to be used in creating biological agents that lack signs of laboratory manipulation.
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39652 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39652
Suffice it to say, this has been a very active area of research (and DoD/NIH/NIAID funding) for many years.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120940/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120940/
In light of this, people that are confidently dismissing or playing down the possibility of a lab l̶e̶a̶k̶ origin at this point seem to be exhibiting some kind of ideological commitment.